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Avatar Thomas Maude
Can anyone give me some info on the new snow leopard update - I've read the blurb on the apple site ... but any inside info from the group would be nice
Many Thanks
Tom

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Stuart Affleck
What info do you need? Unless anyone's got one of the test versions (legitimately or otherwise, I resisted temptation) we can't tell you what it's like to run. Just ordered the family pack, so hopefully delivered Friday. This might be helpful in the meantime.... http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/25/preview_os_apple_snow_leopard/

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Thomas Maude
Thanks Stuart that was very helpful

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Avatar Euan Williams
Thomas, you might also like to check: "Snow Leopard Installation news" on this site.

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Avatar Euan Williams
David Pogue has a "features review" in the New York Times this morning here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?th&emc=th

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Avatar Euan Williams
MacWorld has just published a lengthy review:

http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=3510

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Thomas Maude
Many Thanks Euan
Tom

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Avatar Alan Cox
David Pogue's article (see Euan above) is well worth reading. I was tempted to get Snow Leopard more or less immediately but then I read the list of 'non–Apple' applications he refers to with their 'compatibility' status. Photoshop Elements is not compatible and Toast Titanium V.9 is doubtful (although V.10 is OK). I use both of these so the much vaunted cheapness of Snow Leopard is somewhat illusory if you have applications which you need and have to buy the latest version and it can spoil your working habits if there is no compatible version available.

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Euan Williams
Alan: ahhhh yes...
installed Snow Leopard last night, and found to my delight that Adobe CS2 (that's CS TWO), Toast 6 Lite, Onyx 2.0.3 for example all seem to work just fine, so don't need to shell out for CS4 upgrade.

Seems like Adobe's "No support for CS2 and 3" statement is tinged with a marketing filter, we shall see. Can't test Photoshop Elements as I don't have it, but I reckon older versions will work well (under Rosetta).

Made a Leopard clone in a partition "just in case", but at the moment it is beginning to look as though it won't be needed.

The key? Install the Rosetta option. If you didn't, and your app needs it, Snow Leopard asks politely if you would like to install it.

SL is simply terrific: studded with gems some quite tiny but enormously useful, several major System improvements which work fine now but point to a strong future, -- and speed improvements especially on anything video.

Finder is now far less frustrating and much snappier (it badly needed this thorough overhaul).

Disk Utility sorts permissions at a fast trot (previously it seemed to wade through treacle) and leaves out all those tiresome Unix | (pipe) "errors" that aren't.

Onyx dealt with the daily, weekly and monthly scripts before I got out of the room to make the traditional cuppa (used to be part of the slow-mo ritual with Leopard).

Try these reviews (thanks to SmallDog.com newsletter: "Kibbles & Bytes #635")
Wired.com – 6 Things You Need to Know About Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Gizmodo – Snow Leopard Review: Lightened and Enlightened
Wall Street Journal – Apple Changes Leopard’s Spots
New York Times – Apple’s Sleek Upgrade
C|Net – Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Engadget – Snow Leopard review
Physorg First Look: New Mac ‘Snow Leopard’ software not a dramatic change

And... (oh gosh!)
Snow Leopard Is a Pale Imitation of Windows 7.

The rant ratio from Windows users says it all...

Enjoy!

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Douglas Cheney
I have installed Snow Leopard today and have had no trouble doing same. One program I have will not work now and that is iFamily for Leopard luckily I have all my data on Mac Family Tree as well so I haven't lost anything, also a small program Koolclip wanted Rosetta installed. Elements 6 works OK as does Toast 10.

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Avatar Trevor Hewson
Our Snow Leopard upgrade may be delayed a while since it will involve buying a new iMac (much as I love our G4, it is PowerPC based) Any guesses as to when the next iMac update may come along?

Doug, Glad to hear that Elements 6 works OK. Was that under Rosetta? If so, that's two reasons to install it - I'm not quite ready to give up on AppleWorks!

Trevor

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Douglas Cheney
I have checked and Elements is Intel Trevor

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Douglas Cheney
Have just tried to use OnyX and had a warning message that it will not work with this version of X

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar John Marriott
Just about to purchase Snow Leopard and thought, I wonder if I should wait until all the 'bugs are out'. I am now not sure since all this information from Euan is rather confusing to a novice like me, for example what is Rosetta?. It would appear that I will be unable to use Photo Elements - which I use quite a lot. So, the question is do I wait a while before I buy SL?

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Douglas Cheney
John it depends on which version of Elements you have I am using version 6 and that is working with Snow Leopard as I stated above

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Avatar Douglas Cheney
Also forgot to mention that Apple Works works alright

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Stuart Affleck
My copy turned up yesterday, installed on both Mac Pro & Mac Book, not found anything incompatible in the programs I've tried so far. Installation was a doddle. I can only concur with all the positive comments people have made.
John: Rosetta is the PowerPC emulation mode, to enable you to run software that hasn't been updated for Intel (well, as long as it was written for OS X).

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Douglas Cheney
Have found out that Microsoft Office 2004 does not work on Snow Leopard

Re: Snow Leopard

Avatar Stuart Affleck
Doug, what problems did you find- just tried Word 2004, seems OK to me..?

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Avatar Douglas Cheney
My Mac froze tried again and a chart which Euan had sent which previously opened in Office opened in iWork onle and Office was greyed out in the alternatives
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